Staff Reporters

SMALL businesses can now have a presence at international trade fairs without leaving home.

CREATING a totally interactive environment for the changing needs of workplace roles and new technologies is a primary concern of the design consultant, says Marshall Kusinski director Kathleen Kusinski.

AN advanced online corporate travel reservations system has been recently introduced by American Express.

MARGARET River wine producer Evans & Tate has been awarded gold medals for its 1996 Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon and 1996 Margaret River Merlot at the 1999 International Wine Challenge in London.

THE information technology skills drain need not be one way – Australia should import IT people from overseas, says Unisys People CEO Monty Sachdev.

SMALL business managers need to focus more on the development of formal human resource management systems, a new study has found.

RURAL Western Australians should not discount the possible effects of Y2K on dominant industries of the region, says Secretary to the Minister for Information Techno-logy, Ian Campbell.

TRAVELAND Claremont has devised a new approach to making leisure travel decisions.

A NORTHERN Territory-based telephone betting service is proving popular.

Perth-based Lynas Gold NL has intersected strongly anomalous copper in a first pass reverse circulation drilling program at the Blue Rose prospect within the Olary project.

EMPLOYEES who have high work demands placed on them – but little say – are at risk of injury or ill health, says The OH&S Services Network head Barbara McPhee.

Property trust company Col-onial First State Industrial (CIP) is recommended a buy by stockbroker JD Carmichael & Co due to a weaker price on the bourse.

THE north and south of WA were evenly represented at the recent WA Tourism Awards for Excel-lence with ten winners each.

YEAH, BABY YEAH! One felt like shouting Austin Powers' anthem of approbation from the rooftops. How marvellous to find a wine list where every wine is also offered by the glass.

Sentiment has turned more positive on the bourse but investors will have a bumpy road, according to stockbroker Bell Securities Limited.

LJ HOOKER Fremantle principal Tony Cavallo has warned investors and home owners that appointed executors of an estate can be unprepared and ill-equipped for their responsibilities.

THE 3rd National Conference for Executive Secretaries and Office Professionals will take place on 29 and 30 July at the Duxton Hotel, Perth.

A recent report by Workplace Agree-ments Commissioner Bob Cooper indicated that 53 per cent of workers on agreements received an ordinary wage rate higher than the award, with 7 per cent receiving a rate equal to the award.

SUPERSTORE Harvey Norman, who has had a presence in the South West for some time, is expanding.Growth in the region has spurred it on to create a more substantial site for its Bunbury operation.

WHEN a staff member leaves, they take with them intellectual capital – one of the company's most valuable assets. So retaining staff is one of the credit manager's most important tasks.

GOLD miner SMC Resources Limited has reached conditional agreement with Western Pacific Gold Inc, a listed Canadian mining company, to acquire Australian Resource Manage-ment Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WPI. SMC will pay using 31.5 million fully

THE number of businesses in industrial areas has increased dramatically recently, according to the Industrial Land Use Survey 1997 for Perth, released by the Ministry for Planning.

THE Guides (WA) Women of Distinction Leadership seminars will take place at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel Perth on 7 September and 9 November.

AN INVESTMENT project focusing on premium red wine selection for major export markets has been released. The Brookhampton project is located just two hours from Perth in state-of-the-art vineyard in the newly recognised wine region of Geographe.

If you want to burn your advertising dollar as fast as a big brand TV advertiser, then buy a few thousand impressions on a busy website such as Yahoo.By my calculations, 10,000 impressions (individuals viewing your ad) costing $500, would be used up in

Western Power's energy showpiece, the Collie Power Station, officially came of age last week when it was opened by WA Energy Minister Colin Barnett.

WHILE there is a cost involved in using a recruitment consultant, it can be more economical than delegating the task to someone in the company.

Brandrill Ltd has launched a Gardner-Denver 100, rated one of the largest production drilling rigs in the country.The company recently completed refurbishing the ten-year-old rig and it will go into immediate use at BHP's iron ore mine at Yarrie in the

Housing sales are reported to have hit a five year high, with related increases in the value of properties, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.

WESTERN Australian women are leading the country in new business start-ups, according to recent research from the Small Business Develop-ment Corporation.

Over the last eighteen months Basedow (pronounced bazz-ee-doe) Wines has been awarded a total of six trophies for its white wines in both Australian and international competitions.

West Perth-based Kimberley Resources NL has moved closer to locating a major diamond resource in the Kimberley region of WA with the discovery of the 16th new pipe in the past six months.